The UK has failed to protect LGBT asylum seekers 11th February 2014 by Islington Green Party Caroline Allen, Islington-based Green Party candidate for the European elections in May, wrote a column last week for leading LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) news website PinkNews.co.uk, on how the government has failed those fleeing homophobic and transphobic persecution. In the piece, she writes how it is “testament to our city that London […] Read more »
Why Greens want the Ultra Low Emission Zone to include the whole of Islington 10th February 2014 by Islington Green Party After sustained pressure from campaigners and overwhelming evidence of dire health effects from air pollution, London’s Mayor has finally seen the light and is proposing introduction of an Ultra-Low Emission Zone for the existing congestion zone in 2020. This would already include parts of Islington, and our proposal is simply asking Boris to extend the […] Read more »
Islington Greens back striking teachers at local ‘free school’ 10th February 2014 by Islington Green Party Teachers are on strike this week at the STEM 6 Academy, a newly opened free school on City Road, for students aged 16 -18 wanting to specialise in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Teachers were individually coerced into signing harsh contracts before Christmas and now wish to obtain union recognition in order to re-negotiate these […] Read more »
Mayor’s U-turn on Tube ticket offices is undemocratic and dangerous 7th February 2014 by Islington Green Party London Mayor Boris Johnson is abandoning his pre-election pledge and will be closing every Tube ticket office by 2015, as well as cutting 953 station jobs, removing supervisors from many stations, and cutting frontline staff while creating more managers. Islington Green Party council candidate Charlie Kiss asked: “When did Londoners get the opportunity to give […] Read more »
Let’s make Boris’ plan for diesel exhaust more ambitious 6th February 2014 by Islington Green Party A letter to Mayor Johnson asking for Islington to be included in the Mayor’s proposed Ultra Low Emission Zone to clean up our air by 2020 was handed to the Environment Committee of the London Assembly ahead of their meeting this morning. The committee is due to discuss the Mayor’s proposed Ultra Low Emission […] Read more »
Democracy and accountability under threat following Islington Council executive decision 27th January 2014 by Islington Green Party Islington Council’s Executive meeting on 14 January decided unanimously that Safer Neighbourhood Police meetings should be amalgamated with Ward Partnership meetings. The latter were established on the abolition of Area Committees after the 2010 election by the then new Labour Council. This raises two questions: How will this arrangement work in wards such as Highbury East […] Read more »
Mount Pleasant plans ‘an assault on the community’ 17th January 2014 by Islington Green Party Islington Green Party has condemned the Post Office’s plans for the massive development of the Mount Pleasant site, which straddles the Islington and Camden council boundaries. Local activist Michael Coffey has called on Islington Council and the Mayor’s office to reject the proposals, which would see a forest of skyscrapers in a gated, private, fortress […] Read more »
Greens join calls to save Clerkenwell fire station for the community 9th January 2014 by Islington Green Party The leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett, today said it was “a day to mourn” as she joined local people to mark the last day of Clerkenwell fire station, one of ten closed down today by London Mayor Boris Johnson. Natalie said: “As we stand here today outside Europe’s oldest first station, we see […] Read more »
Islington Greens condemn Labour record on Atos 12th December 2013 by Islington Green Party Islington Green Party can sympathise with Councillor Watts’ frustration at the Minister of Justice’s complacent response to his criticism of Atos, but it is hard to forget that it was the Labour government in 1998 that gave Atos a seven year contract to harass disabled persons of working age, and renewed the contract for a […] Read more »
Islington public back Green call for action on air pollution 22nd November 2013 by Islington Green Party It is clear from the letters sent to last week’s Islington Tribune that local people in Islington are not only very concerned to hear that deaths due to air pollution are increasing, but can see for themselves that the Council is fundamentally wrong in saying nothing more can be done in the Borough. Caroline Allen, […] Read more »